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Countries which share a common currency potentially have strong incentives to share macroeconomic risks through a system of transfers to compensate for the loss of national monetary policy. However, the option to leave the currency union and regain national monetary policy can place severe...
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power of income index and the Fisher Equation allows up to a 15% inflation target without the costs of inflation? It is a … most of the costs of inflation including the relative price distortion through the price tag (by disclosing the nominal … of inflation targeting that can combat the Global Financial Crisis. The impetus for its adoption across the developed …
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reveals that the best policy combination is a countercyclical fiscal stance and CPI inflation monetary targeting under a … flexible exchange rate regime to stabilize equally the domestic price inflation, aggregate output, and real exchange rate in a …
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Halving the US current account deficit as a share of GDP is likely to impose a burden of $2,350 per capita on the United States, which explains why US policymakers want to postpone adjustment. The rest of the world relies on the economic stimulus of a widening US external deficit, which explains...
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The marked turnaround in Russia's foreign trade in 2023 exerted strong downward pressure on the Russian rouble, which lost around 30% of its value. Global oil prices were declining in the first half of the year, the EU import embargo on Russian oil depressed prices even further; and on top of...
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In light of persistent in ation dispersion and rising debt levels in the EMU, this paper investigates the welfare implications of budget-neutral scal policies that counteract in ation di erentials. In a two-country DSGE model of a monetary union with traded and non-traded goods a national scal...
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness … (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy (in)effectiveness, 2019). The PTI shows that when an economy is heavily … and policies aimed to stimulate output growth dissipate into domestic currency depreciation and higher inflation, with …
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productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …
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adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that … data predicts 10 percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany. …
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-run growth of production takes place due to long-run growth of the labor force, capital stock, productivity or due to technology …
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